My Bloodline Runs Deep.
General notes:
had the most delicious salad at work today: turkey, pine nuts, and goat cheese in field greens, washed down with a pomegranate limeade from Odwalla. It's the first time I've voluntarily bought a salad in a long time, and it was worth it. You know that feeling you get when you're eating something that's good for you, but it also tastes really great? Yeah, I had that all afternoon.
Gooney's, you are the restaurant of my heart. And you have hot Indian and Somalian women working there, so I could theoretically live there for the rest of my life.
watched the pilot episode of The Chicago Code and have fallen so hard for it, despite my pissiness over Antonio. But it is such a Shawn Ryan show, as Wysocki's entire characterization proves, and I just hope that he makes Colvin more than a cardboard cut-out of a woman in charge. The thing I loved about The Shield was how dynamic and complex the characterizations were, how everyone was morally ambiguous and terrifying and likable, despite the awful things they did, and I want that with this show as well.
Ryan's doing a good job with Givens and Wysocki, and there's potential for Evers (who is so adorable), but he needs to do it with Colvin as well since she's the glue that holds everything together. He's shown her tough and vulnerable so far, and I like that a lot. Please continue to do this, Ryan, because I am already in love with this world, and I want to see where you're going with this.
I also want Colvin/Wysocki, Wysocki/Evers, and Colvin/Evers/Wysocki right now! I am also bitter because I cannot find icons or even screencaps to make icons, and no fandom has magically sprung up overnight to shower me with hot porn and Wysocki being a cagey bastard and doing Colvin against the wall. Or Evers. Or both.
yet another reason why Daniel O'Brien is my favorite columnist, if only because he has finally managed to articulate the main reason why I fucking loathe Quentin Tarantino on every single level: 4 Great Artists Who Make it Really Hard Not To Hate Them
He's also spot-on on why, as charming as Kevin Smith is, he's also become kind of a whiny, thin-skinned dick of late. I liked Cop Out just fine, but when your response to critics being the same disapproving jerks they've always been is to yell, "Well, fine, then I'm just going to take my toys and go the fuck home" before flouncing off, you've crossed the line into dickery. Still love your movies, Kevin, but you're a twat, and I'm really glad I never followed you on Twitter or read your goddamn published diary. My brother-in-law has a man-crush on you and even he started hating you after that.
The 10 Most Awesome Movies Hollywood Ever Killed by David Wong is on here simply because of the entry where he talks about how Chris Rock was almost in a rebooted Fletch.
Okay, so I grew up on the movies, which were okay, but mostly slapsticky and stupid, although I have a soft spot for the second movie just for Cleavon Little. And then I actually read the books a few years ago and got so angry when I saw just how much the movies had gutted the actual character. Fletch is supposed to be really smart as well as a smartass, and also young and handsome and charmingly amoral, but also hopelessly optimistic, and he falls in love every five seconds. He's a really fun guy and you can't help but love him. Chevy Chase is none of those things, and seriously, fuck that guy so hard for just sucking for so many years.
Anyway, when I mentally cast Fletch in my head, I was thinking more along the lines of Ryan Reynolds with the sarcasm and the charm and the ass that looks great in jeans. And then Wong drops Chris Rock on me and boom! I have a better idea for a new Fletch now.
Really, are you surprised by this? I think half the movies coming out would be better with Donald Glover, but I think he would be a brilliant Fletch. He's already proven that he can do funny, charming, and sarcastic, and as Mystery Team has shown us, the dude can dress up in stupid costumes and make it work.
in a related tangent, I have another reason to love Glover. Look at the first post on the Sex tag of his website. That's right, DGloves loves Grace Park too! You know he DVRs H50 and watches Grace's bikini scenes in slow-mo. Who wouldn't, really?
I was supposed to watch The Mechanic tonight, but between exhaustion and my shoulder being out of whack, I came home and relaxed instead. I'll go tomorrow after at least ten hours of sleep.
Gooney's, you are the restaurant of my heart. And you have hot Indian and Somalian women working there, so I could theoretically live there for the rest of my life.
Ryan's doing a good job with Givens and Wysocki, and there's potential for Evers (who is so adorable), but he needs to do it with Colvin as well since she's the glue that holds everything together. He's shown her tough and vulnerable so far, and I like that a lot. Please continue to do this, Ryan, because I am already in love with this world, and I want to see where you're going with this.
I also want Colvin/Wysocki, Wysocki/Evers, and Colvin/Evers/Wysocki right now! I am also bitter because I cannot find icons or even screencaps to make icons, and no fandom has magically sprung up overnight to shower me with hot porn and Wysocki being a cagey bastard and doing Colvin against the wall. Or Evers. Or both.
He's also spot-on on why, as charming as Kevin Smith is, he's also become kind of a whiny, thin-skinned dick of late. I liked Cop Out just fine, but when your response to critics being the same disapproving jerks they've always been is to yell, "Well, fine, then I'm just going to take my toys and go the fuck home" before flouncing off, you've crossed the line into dickery. Still love your movies, Kevin, but you're a twat, and I'm really glad I never followed you on Twitter or read your goddamn published diary. My brother-in-law has a man-crush on you and even he started hating you after that.
Okay, so I grew up on the movies, which were okay, but mostly slapsticky and stupid, although I have a soft spot for the second movie just for Cleavon Little. And then I actually read the books a few years ago and got so angry when I saw just how much the movies had gutted the actual character. Fletch is supposed to be really smart as well as a smartass, and also young and handsome and charmingly amoral, but also hopelessly optimistic, and he falls in love every five seconds. He's a really fun guy and you can't help but love him. Chevy Chase is none of those things, and seriously, fuck that guy so hard for just sucking for so many years.
Anyway, when I mentally cast Fletch in my head, I was thinking more along the lines of Ryan Reynolds with the sarcasm and the charm and the ass that looks great in jeans. And then Wong drops Chris Rock on me and boom! I have a better idea for a new Fletch now.
Really, are you surprised by this? I think half the movies coming out would be better with Donald Glover, but I think he would be a brilliant Fletch. He's already proven that he can do funny, charming, and sarcastic, and as Mystery Team has shown us, the dude can dress up in stupid costumes and make it work.
I was supposed to watch The Mechanic tonight, but between exhaustion and my shoulder being out of whack, I came home and relaxed instead. I'll go tomorrow after at least ten hours of sleep.